Social Partial reception As participation in social networking services grows, information about peoples’ interests or activities is variably diffused through organizations based on Lorcan Dempsey Apr 17, 2009
Institutions QOTD: therapeutic value of objects A project looking at the use of ‘heritage’ materials in hospital contexts caught my eye … > Working with Guy Noble, Lorcan Dempsey Apr 11, 2009 1 min read
Systems Snap and go catalogue Several things about catalogs, mobile apps, and pictures …. Just after doing the entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001921. Lorcan Dempsey Apr 10, 2009 1 min read
Systems Amazon remembers I noticed this feature on the page for the Amazon Blackberry App [https://www.amazon.com/gp/anywhere/sms/bbapp] Lorcan Dempsey Apr 9, 2009 1 min read
Systems "Harvesting intentionality" Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun used the phrase “harvesting intentionality” in a blog post recently. > Discovering Intent Now, why Lorcan Dempsey Apr 9, 2009 2 min read
Institutions Network management Gary Hamel, management guru, has a couple of posts about about management in the network age. On the web, he Lorcan Dempsey Apr 6, 2009 2 min read
Systems Virtual International Authority File Thom discusses the updated viaf.org [https://viaf.org] site … > The VIAF site [https://viaf.org/] has recently had Lorcan Dempsey Apr 3, 2009 1 min read
Meta Slowing down for a while .. Blogging has been a little thin of late as I have been traveling and I have a couple of writing Lorcan Dempsey Apr 2, 2009
Systems Four sources of metadata about things - version 2 I think it is useful to think of four sources of descriptive metadata in libraries. These are not mutually exclusive, Lorcan Dempsey Apr 1, 2009 3 min read
Systems What's on your mind ... Ohio State, our neighbors to the South, have a nice tag cloud feature on their home page. I am not Lorcan Dempsey Mar 31, 2009 1 min read
Books Book covers and the scholarly record There have been various discussions among research libraries recently about the management of the collective print collection as pressures on Lorcan Dempsey Mar 31, 2009 2 min read
UX The intrusion of ads We are now used to seeing ads on web pages, and it seems quite normal. In fact, occasionally, they are Lorcan Dempsey Mar 30, 2009 1 min read